The effort of science of today is the construction of technology for tomorrow

Abstract

“The effort of science in today is the construction of technology of tomorrow. Cord blood banking is also quoted as biological insurance since it is the one of new option expecting their parents can select to have an extra assurance focusing on the health of their child. A baby can be bestowed with love, money virtually anything, but storing its cord blood is a once in lifetime opportunity in its real sense it knocks just once when the baby is born as life insurance policy. It explains that obstetric and gynecological nurses must know about the value of cord blood storage, who are in contact with the pregnant mother and her family. Umbilical cord blood is a readily available source of hematopoietic stem cells that treat a variety of malignant and non- malignant diseases in children and adult. Nurses as frontline health care professionals need to understand umbilical cord stem cells and their application in medicine.Statement of the problem: “A Study to assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding cord blood bank among third Year Diploma in General Nursing and Midwifery students at selected Institute of Nursing, Vadnagar, Gujarat.”Objectives of the study: To assess the pre-test level of knowledge regarding cord blood bank among third year Diploma in general Nursing and midwifery students.To assess the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding cord blood bank among third year Diploma in general Nursing and Midwifery students.To find out the association between the post-test level of knowledge regarding cord blood bank with their demographic variables.Methods and Materials: This study was conducted with 90 (Diploma in Nursing and Midwifery third year Year Students) samples in quantitative approach, pre - experimental design, one group pre-test and post-test design, sampling selection was done by convenient sampling technique. The study was conducted in Ratnaprabha Institute of Nursing and Manav institute of Nursing, Vadnagar, Gujarat. Pre-existing knowledge was assessed by using semi structured questionnaires. After the pre-test, structured teaching program was given regarding cord blood bank using PPT and after 7 days post test was conducted using the same tool.Results: According to the pre-test 44.4% considered as inadequate, 52.2% considered as moderate, 3.4% considered as adequate. According to the post-test 86.7% considered as adequate and 13.3% considered as moderate and 0% is considered as in -adequate. From the post-test evaluation third year diploma in general and midwifery students are having 86,7% of adequate level of knowledge and 13. 3% having moderate level of knowledge and none of the above have inadequate level of knowledge. Considering overall knowledge score, the mean pre-test score of Midwifery students are having 15.44 score and in post-test mean score are having 24.80 score, so the difference is 9.36. This difference is large and statistically significant difference.Conclusion: Hence, structured teaching programme was effective, appropriate and feasible to impart knowledge to nursing students. It would help the students to acquire knowledge and they will disseminate the importance of cord blood bank to the parents and build disease free generation.